Kuang Heng of "Chiseling the Wall to Steal the Light" is Wei Ya of the Western Han Dynasty? As the "head" official embezzled 10,000 acres of fiefdom
The story of "chiseling the wall to steal the light" must be known to friends who have been in junior high school, which is a real case of inspiration and studiousness. Kuang Heng was born in the Western Han Dynasty, and when he was a child, his family was too poor to light an oil lamp, but he loved to learn very much, so he tried to do everything possible to read more to change his destiny.
The cost of the oil lamp lit by the ancient family at night is actually very low, and the small editor lit such an oil lamp at home when he was a child, and the flame size is adjustable. Under normal circumstances, there is no such fine work as a needle to do clothing, and people are not willing to let the flames be too strong, so expensive; usually the brightness used for lighting is the flame the size of a soybean.
The Kuang Heng family of the Western Han Dynasty was so poor that they could not even light an oil lamp the size of a mung bean, but they encountered Kuang Heng's hunger for knowledge. So he thought of a way to chisel through the walls and borrow light from the neighbor's house to read a book. So he used a chisel to chisel a small hole in the wall, the diameter of which is the size of a date, after all, the chisel will be found by the neighbors, and it will also affect the safety of the wall as a load-bearing wall.
Dialectics says that there are two sides to everything. Poverty in childhood can promote a person to work hard, and his chances of success are naturally higher than ordinary people; but after success, his personality in his youth does not change immediately, and the strong desire to pursue success will continue to develop due to inertia after his success, which will prompt the person to constantly grab wealth and rights to fill the part of the heart that is lacking in childhood, so as to achieve a balance in life values.
Many children with solid families grow up, compared with children who lack various deficiencies in childhood, their desire for material and rights is relatively small, this is because he does not think that the outside world or society is unfair to himself, or owes himself anything, so even if he has certain rights and dominance when he grows up, he will most likely not frantically grab material and rights, because he does not have the deep imbalance and the motivation to pursue this balance.
Kuang Heng's hard work in his youth was finally rewarded, and in 36 BC, he took over his position after the death of the current chancellor, and became a very popular subject from then on. According to the official feudal system of the Western Han Dynasty, Kuang Heng also obtained a fief of 310,000 mu while being enfeoffed as the Marquis of Le'an.
It is said that this position and these fiefdoms have allowed a non-royal to enjoy the glory and wealth for several generations, but human beings are like an electronic product with major defects, such as not even the overheating protection mechanism of the computer, and humans often play themselves until they collapse and burn the machine, and errors in the middle cannot be self-checked and automatically terminated. Kuang Heng used his ingenuity to manipulate the fiefdom.
Due to technical restrictions, the accuracy of ancient maps is not high, and the shape of mapping and the actual terrain will also be quite different. The emperor only gave Kuang Heng a compliant number and location according to the system, but Kuang Heng used the loopholes in the map to allocate 40,000 acres of land to himself, and these were not visible on the map at that time, and the truth could only be known through field measurements.
The emperor did not have the spare time to doubt his great butler, but Kuang Heng's political enemies had this leisure and this idleness. The political enemy secretly went to the Kuangheng fiefdom to measure the specific size on the ground, and found that there were a full 40,000 mu of land on the books, which was conclusive, and the political enemy handed over these first-hand information to the Hancheng Emperor.
Witnesses, testimonies, and evidence were complete, the facts of the crime were clear, and the emperor could not cover up if he wanted to, so he had to cut off all of Kuang Heng's official positions in accordance with the law. Kuang Heng lost his official position and fell to his hometown, and the huge gap made him depressed and died within a few years.
There is nothing new under the sun, and there have been illegal things since ancient times, and these illegal acts have harmed the interests of the people of the country, but one day they will be exposed to the world, and justice will naturally return to society.